Publications (119)
Self-amplification of solid friction in interleaved assemblies
Hector Alarcon, Thomas Salez, Christophe Poulard +4
It is nearly impossible to separate two interleaved phonebooks when held by their spines. A full understanding of this astonishing demonstration of solid friction in complex assemb…
Photoassociative creation of ultracold heteronuclear 6Li40K* molecules
Armin Ridinger, Saptarishi Chaudhuri, Thomas Salez +5
We investigate the formation of weakly bound, electronically excited, heteronuclear 6Li40K* molecules by single-photon photoassociation in a magneto-optical trap. We performed trap…
Hydroelastic wake on a thin elastic sheet floating on water
Jean-Christophe Ono-dit-Biot, Miguel Trejo, Elsie Loukiantcheko +4
We investigate the hydroelastic wake created by a perturbation moving at constant speed along a thin elastic sheet floating at the surface of deep water. Using a high-resolution cr…
Wake and wave resistance on viscous thin films
René Ledesma-Alonso, Michael Benzaquen, Thomas Salez +1
The effect of an external pressure disturbance, being displaced with a constant speed along the free surface of a viscous thin film, is studied theoretically in the lubrication app…
Influence of Slip on the Plateau-Rayleigh Instability on a Fibre
Sabrina Haefner, Michael Benzaquen, Oliver Baümchen +6
The Plateau-Rayleigh instability of a liquid column underlies a variety of fascinating phenomena that can be observed in everyday life. In contrast to the case of a free liquid cyl…
Observation of Brownian elastohydrodynamic forces acting on confined soft colloids
Nicolas Fares, Maxime Lavaud, Zaicheng Zhang +3
Confined motions in complex environments are ubiquitous in microbiology. These situations invariably involve the intricate coupling between fluid flow, soft boundaries, surface for…